Years ago, I was travelling in a VNAF large military plane over Viet Nam. We entered the plane from the back. It went bumpy as the plane lifted off the airport, but was flying smooth in flight. However, propellers were quite noisy.

People had difficulty to adjust seat belts as the plane wasn't an ordinary airline. Maybe they should use Vietnam Airline.

We flew from Saigon TSN Airport to Hue (it was a long trip) and went to the national Shrine of Our Lady of La Vang. Then we flew to Da Nang, then to Qui Nhon, and Bien Hoa.

An army person told me it was a Caribou, but I couldn't find any that actually had propellers just behind the wings (instead of usual in front of them).

If you know a Caribou plane that has that design, can you show me a picture?

If so, that may have been it. This is a Piaggio P.166, manufactured in Italy with 600 horsepower Lycoming turboprop engines mounted in a pusher design (behind the wing). It looks somewhat like a DeHavilland Caribou (shown below) and I guess could have been mistaken as one for someone not familiar with the design....

Of course, I may be totally off the deep end, and GKC has a better answer. But I, personally, have never seen or heard of a Caribou with pusher engines.

If so, that may have been it. This is a Piaggio P.166, manufactured in Italy with 600 horsepower Lycoming turboprop engines mounted in a pusher design (behind the wing). It looks somewhat like a DeHavilland Caribou (shown below) and I guess could have been mistaken as one for someone not familiar with the design....

Of course, I may be totally off the deep end, and GKC has a better answer. But I, personally, have never seen or heard of a Caribou with pusher engines.

Nope. No idea. I couldn't have come up with the Piaggio, either. But no US AF production pusher propeller aircraft I can recall, since the Peacemaker.

The F104s used to fly right over my clothesline - not too far from the base.The afterburners shook our windows at night when they were testing them.

L.

The missile with a man in it was beautiful. But also called the widow maker, by the Germans who flew it. Or, occasionally, the lawn dart.

GKC.

Yup, it was unforgiving. Gen. Erich Hartmann, (352 kills), was forced to retire from the 1960's Luftwaffe over his outspoken criticism of the F-104. Much of that was how the Germans and we Americans and Canadians utilised the aircraft. Other air forces such as the Norwegians, Turks and Pakistanis, fell in love with it. The Spanish did as well and never lost a single airframe or pilot in an accident.

_________________"Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!" St. John of the Cross

Years ago, I was travelling in a VNAF large military plane over Viet Nam. We entered the plane from the back. It went bumpy as the plane lifted off the airport, but was flying smooth in flight. However, propellers were quite noisy.

People had difficulty to adjust seat belts as the plane wasn't an ordinary airline. Maybe they should use Vietnam Airline.

We flew from Saigon TSN Airport to Hue (it was a long trip) and went to the national Shrine of Our Lady of La Vang. Then we flew to Da Nang, then to Qui Nhon, and Bien Hoa.

Very cool!

_________________"Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!" St. John of the Cross